Love the sig! He's still out there somewhere, sometimes posts on Slashdot. Total freedom from self-awareness makes for a spectacle on many fora, still funny enough to become a meme.
"So what if it does? The US already has the most powerful military in the world by an order of magnitude. What do we need all of this "power" for, anyway? We haven't had a real threat to the US since WWII."
"we could instead SUPPORT each other many times over."
False-choice fallacy. Just because one gives away everything doesn't mean that others won't use force to attempt to impose their preferred outcomes, religion, or ideology.
You are welcome to demonstrate on an individual scale and show the rest of us up.;)
The Soviets could have afforded to stay as long as they liked. Their casualties, by Soviet standards, were trivial. They weren't driven out, but realized they'd never have a capable government of locals.
The strategy of giving Jihadists attractive places to fight and then letting prolonged conflict wear out their local support isn't anything the US would sanely admit to, but it is working pretty well in Iraq. The jury is out on A-stan.
Knowingly selling defective or fraudulent merchandise to DoD should be considered sabotage (it IS sabotage) and the offenders executed.
Be it an engine part that fails or comm equipment that breaks down or a mortar fuse that detonates the round in the mortar tube, knowingly selling bad or fake goods to DoD is sabotage.
"f you just shrugged it off then only your coworkers would know you have a small dick. Now the whole world knows."
Being a rent-a-pig instead of a real LEO is bad enough, being outed for a small dick is worse, and outing oneself as unstable is just plain stupid.
My answer to such things is pure attitude. I don't care who sees my crank, will laugh at them for looking, and offer 'em the opportunity to taste it if it fascinates them so. Being an obnoxious asshole is quite fun at times, give it a shot.
If you are counting on the stock market to provide your retirement and you aren't a skilled, professional trader with years of success, it's time to just dig your own grave and have a nap.
It's absurd for a non-expert to trust a den of thieves with their savings.
I attach my keys and Super Leatherman to chute cord which loops around my belt. (It's an old trick to ensure they didn't fall off in an aircraft or while riding a motorcycle.)
They fit fine in my pocket, and chute cord is durable and conformal. I only carry flat keys (other than the PATS key for my truck) so bulk is no problem. The keyring(s) are secured by looping the chute cord through the ring, while the Leatherman is on a common latch of the type used on dog leashes. Keys cannot fall off and Leatherman is quicker to detach and unlikely to fall off. Use strong keyrings.
"Cofferdam" would confuse techtards, although the term was common in schools a few decades back when bridge construction was still considered worthy of understanding.
Religion is not race. Muslims are not a race. Jihadist Muslims are not a race. Pan-Arab ideology is far more political than racial.
Humans advance their interests by force. It's natural because it works when you prevail. (This included unconventional force, terrorist/frightful force, etc.) Force trumps everything else no matter how much you yearn for it to be otherwise. It's how animals compete in nature, and how civilizations rise and fall.
Pacifism is not competitive, nor are moral constructs. They are comforting, that is different. Know the difference no matter what you prefer.
Not when one is a Republican, the party of (check their anti-sex, anti-personal-freedom-other-than-Second Amendment) voting record before modding me) the Christian Taliban.
"Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house."
FUCK him, put it next to MY house!:)
Throw in a cell phone tower too, preferably ON my land with the usual lease. Set up the construction compound nearby (we need the jobs and have a decent workforce). Our community college can do workforce training (WIA 4 teh win!) to support any business. I'll get with the local development board, the mayor, and anyone else who might be useful. I shit you not, bring it on.
Self and county would be tickled as a pedo at Scout camp.
They don't explode. burn, and piss hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean.
The NIMBY folks who snivel about wind turbines are welcome to a deep draught of "Deepwater Horizon" (or Exxon Valdez, or to go way back, Torrey Canyon) to go with their oily fish dinner.
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Love the sig! He's still out there somewhere, sometimes posts on Slashdot. Total freedom from self-awareness makes for a spectacle on many fora, still funny enough to become a meme.
Don't forget about Opera. As Firefox and Chrome become bloated, there is an alternative.
"So what if it does? The US already has the most powerful military in the world by an order of magnitude. What do we need all of this "power" for, anyway? We haven't had a real threat to the US since WWII."
The Cold War begs to differ.
"we could instead SUPPORT each other many times over."
False-choice fallacy. Just because one gives away everything doesn't mean that others won't use force to attempt to impose their preferred outcomes, religion, or ideology.
You are welcome to demonstrate on an individual scale and show the rest of us up. ;)
"I didn't miss the sarcasm. I just think it's time for consumers to start making some demands of our own."
Vote with your wallet. Most DRM-protected content is mass-market pop culture shit you should despise anyway.
There are alternative artists who don't despise their audience. Pay them instead and spit out that fat, greasy, scabrous media cock so many crave.
The Soviets could have afforded to stay as long as they liked. Their casualties, by Soviet standards, were trivial.
They weren't driven out, but realized they'd never have a capable government of locals.
The strategy of giving Jihadists attractive places to fight and then letting prolonged conflict wear out their local support isn't anything the US would sanely admit to, but it is working pretty well in Iraq. The jury is out on A-stan.
Knowingly selling defective or fraudulent merchandise to DoD should be considered sabotage (it IS sabotage) and the offenders executed.
Be it an engine part that fails or comm equipment that breaks down or a mortar fuse that detonates the round in the mortar tube, knowingly selling bad or fake goods to DoD is sabotage.
""Designed to kill all innovators that don't have big backers"."
Linus Torvalds isn't dead, nor is his work.
"f you just shrugged it off then only your coworkers would know you have a small dick. Now the whole world knows."
Being a rent-a-pig instead of a real LEO is bad enough, being outed for a small dick is worse, and outing oneself as unstable is just plain stupid.
My answer to such things is pure attitude. I don't care who sees my crank, will laugh at them for looking, and offer 'em the opportunity to taste it if it fascinates them so. Being an obnoxious asshole is quite fun at times, give it a shot.
"The whole purpose of the scanners to emasculate and demean the people who pass through them. This should be clear to everyone."
Too late, I'm already married.
"1. it was even in the summary that by now even home routers are targeted by the asshats. I fail to see how a hardened Linux PC helps there."
Put the hardened PC BETWEEN the cable modem and the router.
This is Slashdot, for fucks sake. That's the instantly obvious solution.
The electricity cost is trivial, suitable computers are often free, and so it the OS and software.
If you are counting on the stock market to provide your retirement and you aren't a skilled, professional trader with years of success, it's time to just dig your own grave and have a nap.
It's absurd for a non-expert to trust a den of thieves with their savings.
I attach my keys and Super Leatherman to chute cord which loops around my belt. (It's an old trick to ensure they didn't fall off in an aircraft or while riding a motorcycle.)
They fit fine in my pocket, and chute cord is durable and conformal.
I only carry flat keys (other than the PATS key for my truck) so bulk is no problem. The keyring(s) are secured by looping the chute cord through the ring, while the Leatherman is on a common latch of the type used on dog leashes. Keys cannot fall off and Leatherman is quicker to detach and unlikely to fall off. Use strong keyrings.
"Chute" cord:
http://www.botachtactical.com/550cord100.html
"I tried your approach with the balls that I couldn't play..."
That's called the "bmezine" method.
NWS,NMS, just plain NS. :)
"Cofferdam" would confuse techtards, although the term was common in schools a few decades back when bridge construction was still considered worthy of understanding.
"Your post is alarmingly racist and misguided"
Slowly for those who don't know the difference:
Religion is not race. Muslims are not a race. Jihadist Muslims are not a race. Pan-Arab ideology is far more political than racial.
Humans advance their interests by force. It's natural because it works when you prevail. (This included unconventional force, terrorist/frightful force, etc.) Force trumps everything else no matter how much you yearn for it to be otherwise. It's how animals compete in nature, and how civilizations rise and fall.
Pacifism is not competitive, nor are moral constructs. They are comforting, that is different. Know the difference no matter what you prefer.
"Whereas reading Slashdot on a private employer's time is perfectly acceptable."
But we despise our employers and don't care what happens to them.
Oh, wait....
"Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator.'"
She sent it in response to his "tits or GTFO" text message.
Not when one is a Republican, the party of (check their anti-sex, anti-personal-freedom-other-than-Second Amendment) voting record before modding me) the Christian Taliban.
Not messy though. Disconnect from grid, torch it off at the base, remove scrap, press on.
It doesn't "chill" me. I want the Blue states to regulate themselves into a corner and push business and development elsewhere.
They get precisely what they vote for (NIMBY), and I get more industry moving to the Sun belt.
What's not to like? States Rights let each live according to their preference. Position yourself to benefit from those choices.
"Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house."
FUCK him, put it next to MY house! :)
Throw in a cell phone tower too, preferably ON my land with the usual lease. Set up the construction compound nearby (we need the jobs and have a decent workforce). Our community college can do workforce training (WIA 4 teh win!) to support any business. I'll get with the local development board, the mayor, and anyone else who might be useful. I shit you not, bring it on.
Self and county would be tickled as a pedo at Scout camp.
Sheep are domestic, less valuable than power, can be moved, and can be bred to not react to noise (or rendered deaf, if necessary).
Can they take her sooner, or is there a waiting list?
Wind farms have another endearing quality:
They don't explode. burn, and piss hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean.
The NIMBY folks who snivel about wind turbines are welcome to a deep draught of "Deepwater Horizon" (or Exxon Valdez, or to go way back, Torrey Canyon) to go with their oily fish dinner.